Your Response

Keep on telling your truth and wear them down over time. Truth is powerful because it is consistent and people pick up on that over time. Lies are only powerful in the short term and soon get shown up because they are inconsistent with reality. If you were to tell lies it would become obvious in the end and then you would loose credibility. Basically telling the truth means people believe you - in the long term anyway.

Your Response

Because, keeping up with lies is difficult, therefore you risk contradicting yourself later on and looking like a dumb liar. This happens even to the most experienced liars, even to people who plan the last detail of their lie (watch People's Court and you will see how easy it is to contradict yourslef even when you planned to lie to a judge).<br />I don't see anything essentially wrong with not telling the truth, as long as there are no moral implications. Like if someone asks you at work how your weekend was, and if in fact your weekend was awful, and you don't want to get into details (you are rushing or whatever) just say "fine thanks" and smile and keep on walking. You don't have to open your true intimate self to everyone who asks. Give yourslef a break. I guess you will know when it is not OK to lie, and to who it is not OK to lie to. Use your judgement.

Your Response

You've got a good point. I guess people are so used to lies that when you tell the truth it upsets people!<br /><br />I've had times in my life where it's easier to lie because they'll only accept a lie. The truth doesn't seem "real" enough. <br /><br />Yeah, that makes perfect sense.